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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Cicadas (Cicadoidea) » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Tacuini » Megatibicen » Resonant Cicada (Megatibicen resonans)
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What is this? - Megatibicen resonans
Copyright © 2012 Jordan

What is this? - Megatibicen resonans
Hinesville, Liberty County, Georgia, USA
July 22, 2012

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What is this? - Megatibicen resonans What is this? - Megatibicen resonans What is this? - Megatibicen resonans
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Contributed by Jordan on 22 July, 2012 - 8:04am
Last updated 24 July, 2012 - 12:15pm

Moved
Moved from "Annual Cicadas" or "Dog-Day Cicadas".
… Bill Reynolds, 24 July, 2012 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

This looks to be T. resonans
Given the pruinosity (white + powdery dusting) dark brownish color, and shape, I suspect resonans. In living individuals, the eyes of this species are usually a dingy purplish grey or brown.

Tibicen resonans is one of the largest cicadas in the Southeast exceeded only by Tibicen auletes. Do you recall if the cicada was >2 inches including wings? If so, then resonans it must be.


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I increased the sizes of the images above and examined them more closely - I am convinced this is T. resonans!
… Bill Reynolds, 24 July, 2012 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
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